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Year in Review

PMC 2018 Year in Review

Dear Friend of the Polish Music Center, Our annual ritual of sharing what we have accomplished at the PMC in 2018 and asking for your… Read more »

Tagged December 2018, Fundraising, PMC News, Year in Review

2017 In Review Part 2

June – December   Anniversaries The iconic festival of contemporary music, Warszawska Jesień [Warsaw Autumn], celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. Held in various venues around Warsaw… Read more »

Tagged 2017, 2017 in Review, Anniversaries, February 2018, Year in Review

2017 in Review Part 1

January – June, 2017 Anniversaries UNESCO proclaimed the year of 2017 as “Year of Kosciuszko” honoring the bicentennial of his passing in 1817. General Thaddeus… Read more »

Tagged 2017, 2017 in Review, January 2018, Year in Review

Year in Review: 2016

Anniversaries The Witold Lutosławski Festival “Chain XIII” (January 31 – February 13, 2016) was held in Warsaw, featuring five symphonic and chamber music programs and celebrating… Read more »

Tagged 2016, 2016 in Review, January 2017, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Festivals

The UK premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem inspired a four-day festival of Polish culture held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The Seven Gates:… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, February 2016, Festivals, Newsletter, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Publications

In collaboration with William Smialek, former PMC Director Maja Trochimczyk wrote the 2nd Edition of  Frédéric Chopin: A Research and Information Guide for the Routledge Music Bibliographies… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, February 2016, Newsletter, Publications, Year in Review

2015 in Review – PMC Donations

The month of December encourages world-wide a Holiday spirit of gift-giving, and this year especially the Polish Music Center found itself on the receiving end… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, Donations, Gifts to PMC, January 2016, Newsletter, PMC News, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Recordings

The first concert played by the Warsaw National Philharmonic in its hall, newly-reconstructed after war-time destruction, was given on Feb 21, 1955. The recording of… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, Newsletter, Recordings, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Premieres

The late Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Symphony No. 4 “Tansman Episody”— the final version was orchestrated by Górecki’s son, Mikolaj Górecki—had its US Premiere on Jan 16-18, 2015… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, Newsletter, Premieres, Year in Review

2015 in Review – PMC News

For two weeks in February, Jan Kalinowski and Marek Szlezer from the Kraków Music Academy conducted extensive research in the Polish Music Center’s Zygmunt and Luisa Stojowski Collection. On February… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, Newsletter, PMC News, Year in Review

2015 in Review- Performances

2015 began with one-time performances of two rarely heard but groundbreaking operas, presented by the Poznań Opera Theatre. The first was Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Portrait, presented at… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, Newsletter, Performances, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Obituaries

Paweł Buczyński, a composer and lecturer at the Chopin Music University, and member of the Polish Composers’ Union, died January 5 at the age of… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, Newsletter, Obituaries, Year in Review

2015 in Review – News

One of the newest installments in Google’s Cultural Institute initiative is the exhibit Witold Lutosławski 1913-1994, an interactive exploration of the life and works of the… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, January 2016, News, Newsletter, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Awards

The Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) announced the winners of the PAHA awards for 2014 at the 72nd Annual Meeting in New York (January 2-4, 2015): the Amicus Poloniae Award “recognizing… Read more »

Tagged Awards, January 2016, Newsletter, Year in Review

2015 in Review – Anniversaries

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the Polish Music Center at the USC Thornton School of Music—a library and cultural outreach center established in 1985 for… Read more »

Tagged 2015, 2015 in Review, Anniversaries, January 2016, Newsletter, Year in Review

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Thornton School of Music
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